Rumi's Sun: The Teachings of Shams of Tabriz

Rumi's son wrote, "After meeting Shams, my father danced all day and sang all night. He had been a scholar --he became a poet. He had been an ascetic--he became drunk with Love." Shams of Tabriz was indeed Rumi's "Sun," the one who set him alight with Divine Love. With the opening of that friendship, a new paradigm appeared and Love flowed out into this world in such abundance that even after almost 800 years the ripples are still widening to encompass the whole of this world . . .

"Rumi's S...